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HMC and Windows Hosting related matters. This blog will also include Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Hosting Deployment.

Yes, you should use web-based distribution OAB.

HMC has been in the market for a while and as it grows, we are beginning to see many HMC providers...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 07/16/2009

Tip: How do you find out who are the users in your HMC environment doing MAPI access?

Typically in a corporate environment, to find out who are the users using Outlook MAPI access and...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 07/16/2009

Messing with otherWellKnownObjects

otherWellKnownObject attributes have been widely used in HMC as a cross reference as well as very...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 07/15/2009

Matching the GUID from AD with MPS Databases - Updated

UPDATED - June 28th - The XML procedure has been updated for HMC 4.5 We all know how the PlanManager...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 07/15/2009

Tip: How do I instruct HMOabUpdate to update all the Offline Address Books in my HMC environment?

Most of you know HMC does not rely on the usual Exchange OAB generation schedule to trigger OABgen....

Author: Kip Ng Date: 07/15/2009

What's going on to group expansion in HMC 4.5 Office Communications Server (OCS)?

When you are using Office Communicator, one of the nicest features (in my opinion) is the capability...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 07/15/2009

Exchange 2007 SP1 RU8 has been validated for HMC 4.0 and HMC 4.5

On a monthly basis, the HMC test team will conduct a Windows update compatibility test (where the...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 06/19/2009

Hosted Email 2007 Import::ImportMailbox will mess up your CustomerAssets table?

For those who are doing the migration from HMC 3.5 to HMC 4.0 using the HMC 4.0 Migration Kit, you...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 06/04/2009

Should I backup my OAB Public Folder Server?

We all know that in HMC environment has recommended that we should have dedicated Exchange Public...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 06/02/2009

MPFListener.exe crashed because of sqloledb.dll?

Recently, I have seen a couple of our customers encountered the following where the MPFListner.exe...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 06/01/2009

Fixing ConvertGlobalToUniversalGroup.vbs in HMC 4.0 Migration Kit

Alright, this is a quick one. For those who are planning to migrate from HMC 3.5 to HMC 4.0, and if...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 06/01/2009

AddressListMembership goes missing again?

Have you ever wonder why sometimes in your HMC environment, some of your users just lose the address...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 05/26/2009

HMC 4.0 Update Rollup 5 has been released.

This has been released a while ago but in case you missed this....

Author: Kip Ng Date: 05/25/2009

HMC 4.5 Update Rollup 3 has been released.

Description of Update Rollup 3 for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration 4.5...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 05/25/2009

Exchange 2007 SP1 RU7 has been validated for HMC 4.0 and HMC 4.5

On a monthly basis, the HMC test team will conduct a Windows update compatibility test (where the...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 04/29/2009

A closer look at the Create Resource Mailbox Problem

Microsoft released the following Hotfix for HMC 4.0 not too long ago, You encounter problems when...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 02/24/2009

SQL Server 2005 SP3 has been validated for HMC 4.0 and HMC 4.5

On a monthly basis, the HMC test team will conduct a Windows update compatibility test (where the...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 02/23/2009

Exchange 2007 SP1 RU6 has been validated for HMC 4.0 and HMC 4.5

On a monthly basis, the HMC test team will conduct a Windows update compatibility test (where the...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 02/23/2009

HMC 4.0 Windows Update Compatibility test

On a monthly basis, the HMC test team will conduct a Windows update compatibility test (where the...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 02/20/2009

HMC 4.5 Windows Update Compatibility test

On a monthly basis, the HMC test team will conduct a Windows update compatibility test (where the...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 02/20/2009

HMC 4.5 Rollup 2 has been released.

Description of Update Rollup 2 for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration 4.5...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 02/14/2009

HMC 4.5 and Office Communications Server 2007

Introduction I have blogged about Hosted Exchange as well as Hosted Windows SharePoint Services so...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 01/20/2009

Tip: Moving Deployment Tools to another server

The following steps will help you to move the Deployment tools from one server to another. For...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 01/16/2009

HMC 4.5 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1

Introduction Those who know the history of HMC, will probably remember that it has a humble...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 01/14/2009

HMC 4.5 and Exchange 2007 SP1 - Part #5 - Autodiscover in the Multi-tenancy environment

Introduction So, we have covered quite a fair bit by now. In part #1, we talked about how we can...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 01/01/2009

Troubleshooting Tip: How to enable Exchange 2007 Provider debug trace?

What Exchange 2007 cmdlets are being executed when I submit a mailbox creation request or a create...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 12/29/2008

HMC 4.5 and Exchange 2007 SP1 - Part #4 Internal and External Out of Office

Internal and External OOF in HMC Environment So, the 4th main customization that HMC introduces to...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 12/26/2008

HMC 4.5 and Exchange 2007 SP1 - Part #3 - Offline Address Book Generations

Introduction In the last part, we discussed about Address List segregation, which is an important...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 12/18/2008

Exchange 2007 SP1 RU5 has been validated for HMC 4.0 and HMC 4.5

On a monthly basis, the HMC test team will conduct a Windows update compatibility test (where the...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 12/17/2008

HMC 4.5 and Exchange 2007 SP1 - Part #2 - Address Lists Segregation

Introduction In part #1, I spent a fair bit of time explaining how HMC was introduced into Exchange...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 12/10/2008

HMC 4.5 and Exchange 2007 SP1 - Part #1 - Overview and Active Directory

Introduction One of the frequently asked questions about Hosted Messaging & Collaboration (HMC)...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 12/04/2008

Exchange 2007 SP1 RU4 has been validated for HMC 4.0.

On a monthly basis, the HMC test team will conduct a Windows update compatibility test (where the...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 12/01/2008

"The size limit for this request was exceeded" encountered when running PeoplepPickerUpdateSites.xml

If you have HMC 4.0 with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1, it is recommended you deploy the...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 11/27/2008

Exchange 2007 SP1 RU4 has been validated for HMC 4.5.

On a monthly basis, the HMC test team will conduct a Windows update compatibility test (where the...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 11/24/2008

OOF Agent is now available for HMC 4.0!

When HMC 4.5 was released, Microsoft introduced an OOF transport agent to support Out of Office...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 11/19/2008

HMC 4.5 Rollup 1 has been released.

Description of Update Rollup 1 for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration 4.5...

Author: Kip Ng Date: 11/19/2008

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